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*Once you get a result, position probes to cover that result. This may be as easy as moving them around a little, or covering a sphere. Either way, keep in mind results from long range scans are ''very'' inaccurate sometimes.

*With luck, you will get one result. If you get circles, or more spheres, your initial guess was off and you need to reposition and try again.

*With luck, you will get one result. If you get circles, or more spheres, your initial guess was off and you need to reposition and try again. One way to easily cover a sphere-result, is to put 4 probes around the edges at enough range to cover the entire sphere. Put them at whatever you want to call the top bottom, left and right, looking down from above. If this is impractical, overlap the sphere as much as possible and try to narrow it down to a circle-result.

*Once you get it down to one result, close probes in, bring them to the same plane as the result, drop scan radius, and re-scan. 4 probes with enough strength is all that is required to find anything. One way to do this is to position the probes in a square around the result, with 4 of the slide arrows touching the result-circle.

*Repeat the process of dropping range, positioning arrows on the result circle, and rescanning until you get your result, or you hit minimum range and still have poor strength- in this case, you need stronger probes! (Core probes should be used to find sites, even with high scanning skills, combat probes will have a hard time finding sites, and deep space probes even worse.)

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 *Once you get a result, position probes to cover that result.  This may be as easy as moving them around a little, or covering a sphere.  Either way, keep in mind results from long range scans are ''very'' inaccurate sometimes.
-*With luck, you will get one result.  If you get circles, or more spheres, your initial guess was off and you need to reposition and try again.
+*With luck, you will get one result.  If you get circles, or more spheres, your initial guess was off and you need to reposition and try again.  One way to easily cover a sphere-result, is to put 4 probes around the edges at enough range to cover the entire sphere.  Put them at whatever you want to call the top bottom, left and right, looking down from above.  If this is impractical, overlap the sphere as much as possible and try to narrow it down to a circle-result.
 *Once you get it down to one result, close probes in, bring them to the same plane as the result, drop scan radius, and re-scan.  4 probes with enough strength is all that is required to find anything.  One way to do this is to position the probes in a square around the result, with 4 of the slide arrows touching the result-circle.
 *Repeat the process of dropping range, positioning arrows on the result circle, and rescanning until you get your result, or you hit minimum range and still have poor strength- in this case, you need stronger probes!  (Core probes should be used to find sites, even with high scanning skills, combat probes will have a hard time finding sites, and deep space probes even worse.)